At the end of the course students will have to demonstrate the knowledge of the
essential aspects of the constitutional organization of the state, the complex system of freedom and constitutional rights, as well as the essential characteristics of
the right to health, its protection, and the fundamentals of the organization of social services

Content

The course aims to provide the basic knowledge on the subject of public law, with particular reference to the freedoms and constitutional rights, the organization of the Italian state and the activity of public administration, as well as, to the welfare system.

Extended Syllabus

THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC, STATE (AS NATIONAL STATE AND AS STATE MEMBER IN THE EU) AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: the state, national sovereignty and its limits - national citizenship and EU citizenship - the state apparatus and the state as legal person - public bodies, public authority and the public administration - administrative procedure and administrative justice - constitutional bodies and other bodies - forms of state and types of state - attributions of (and relations between) Parliament, Government and President - The regional organization and local government (in short) - international and supranational organization - the European Union - relations between the EU legal system and the internal legal system
THE CONSTITUTION AND OTHER SOURCES OF LAW: The legal norm and the criteria for the resolution of antinomies - the sources of law - sources of production and sources of cognition - Constitution and constitutional revision - the law in the formal sense, the law in the substantive sense and the reserves of law - the acts having the force of law: decree-law and legislative decree - the abrogative referendum - the regulations of the Executive
THE RIGHTS AND THE PROTECTION OF RIGHTS: fundamental principles and inviolable rights in the Republican Constitution - rights of liberty and social rights - the protection of human rights in a supranational and international context - rights and jurisdiction - ordinary jurisdiction and Constitutional Court
THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC STATE AND THE WELFARE SYSTEM: from the liberal state to the social democratic state - formal equality and substantial equality - welfare in the democratic social state - social rights and welfare system
RIGHT TO HEALTH AND HEALTH SYSTEM: the right to health and its variations - the limits to the right to self-determination - public health and its financing - the right to health as a fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution and the essential levels of performance - the evolution of the health system in Italy - the health structures: the central level and the territorial level